Thymic Medulla Epithelial Cells Acquire Specific Markers By Post-Mitotic Maturation

Developmental Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-36

  Penit, Claude ^a   Lucas, Bruno ^a   Vasseur, Florence ^a   Rieker, Theresa ^b   Boyd, Richard L ^c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Australia)

Author keywords

bone marrow transfer; cell proliferation; RAG 2 mice; thymocytes; Thymus epithelium

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CELL MARKER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LYMPHOID CELL; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MITOSIS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0029813991     PISSN: 10446672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/1996/61035     Document Type: Article

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